BOOK AWARDS
James Tait Black Memorial Prizes 2006
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Founded in memory of a partner at A & C Black Ltd, the James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are awarded annually for the best work of fiction and the best biography (or work of that nature) published during the previous year.
They are awarded on the recommendation of John Frow, the Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh.
The value of each prize is £3,000, derived from the James Tait Black Memorial Fund. Previous winners include DH Lawrence, EM Forster, Graham Greene and Salman Rushdie.
Winners (announced end May)
The prize for Biography - Sue Prideaux for Edvard Munch: Behind The Scream
The prize for Fiction went to Ian McEwan for Saturday
Shortlist 2006 (announced May)
| FICTION — Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| Praying Mantis | Andre Brink | Secker & Warburg | 0436206013 |
| Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro | Faber & Faber | 0571224113 |
| Beasts of No Nation | Uzodinma Iweala | John Murray | 0719567521 |
| Saturday | Ian McEwan | Jonathan Cape | 0224072994 |
| Mother, Missing | Joyce Carol Oates | Fourth Estate | 0007207956 |
| The Accidental | Ali Smith | Hamish Hamilton | 0241141907 |
| BIOGRAPHY — Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| Siegfried Sassoon: A Biography | Max Egremont | Picador | 0330375261 |
| Haw-Haw: The Tragedy of William aNd Margaret Joyce | Nigel Farndale | Macmillan | 0333989929 |
| The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievements of Horatio Nelson | Roger Knight | Allen Lane | 0713996196 |
| Stuart: A Life Backwards | Alexander Masters | Fourth Estate | 0007200366 |
| Voltaire Almighty: A Life in Pursuit of Freedom | Roger Pearson | Bloomsbury | 0747574952 |
| Edvard Munch: Behind The Scream | Sue Prideaux | Yale University Press | 0300110243 |
